The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 29, 1929, Page 1

" THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week = aily Kotered as second-class w at the Gost Office at Ne ow York, N. ¥., ander the act of March 3, 1879. Published daily except Si Company. toc.. 26-28 Vol. VI., No. 228 dey by The Comprodatly Publi: inion Square. New York City, N. ¥.CS=™21 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Outside New York. by mail New York 86.00 per yen: Workers! On Guard! Imperi-- TUUL Begins alist War Makers Threaten Struggle. in | Many Fields Soviet Union! After the Red Army has delivered a crushing defeat to the mer- cenary armies of Chinese and White Guard Russian’adventurers the sending of which from Chinese territory into the territory of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics had been inspired by the United States government—the American paymasters of Chiang Kai-shek are thrown into new feverish activity to renew the imperialist military efforts in Manchuria. * After the warfare has been, for the moment, ended by the effective action. of the Red Army—the United States government offers, accord- ing to telegrams from Tokyo, its “benevolent” services to “end the strife.” This is an indication of the true motives of the Wall Street government, The “Kellogg Peace Pact” is being frantically put forward as a blind behind which the most sinister imperialist maneuvers are being made. by the United States government for the reopening of the war on the Chinese front against the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. So delicate is the situation that Acting Secretary of State Joseph P. Cot- ton, at a conference with capitalist newspaper men at Washington, sud- denly walked out of the conference when confronted with questions of United States policy in Manchuria. Meanwhile the representatives of the militarist government of the hangman of the workers and peasants of China, Chiang Kai-shek, is try- ing to find a way, in the tangle of insoluble imperialist conflicts be- tween the American Wall Street government and the governments of Great Britain and Japan, to make effective a demand that intervention agairist the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics be undertaken by the imperialist League of Nations. All intelligent members of the working class must avoid all illusions. War is in the air. The most fundamental of all contradictions in the capitalist world—the antagonism between the imperialist capitalist world on the one hand and the new society of free workers and peasants, the Union of Socialtst Soviet Republics—is at an acute stage. The Union ‘of Socialist Soviet Republics demands peace and is in need of peace for the magnificent work of upbuilding the new free society. But all of its efforts toward peace are being sabotaged and wrecked by the imperialist intriguers. The Red Army—which is really the army of the working class of every country of the world—will be forced into action as soon as the capitalists can see their way clear. It is not pos- sible to know how soon this may be. The workers of the United States must regard it their special duty at this moment to prepare to give every possible aid to the workers and peasants’ republic, to preserve peace if possible, and to defeat any and all operations against it, come what may. Workers, on guard! The Socialist Fatherland of our class is in danger! Imperialism’s Front Against the Working Class---Hoover to Muste ; | to extend the tour of Ida Rothstein, The lumber workers,, particularly of the South and the Pacific North- | west, the upper peninsula of Michi- | ,gan, and California, have a brilliant record of struggle against oppres- | sion and for revolutionary unionism, heroic resistance to terror, and vic- tories, Their present condition is one | of disorganization and of loss of all that was gained during the militant period. | The Trade Union United League {national executive board at its re- cent session prepared for organiza- tion, centering at present in Seattle, Wash., and holds the T. U. U. L, secretary there responsible for mak- ing a beginning, proposing to sup- port the Pacific Coast center by sending nationally known speakers there. A beginning of organization work exists in the recently started shingle weavers’ union in southern Washington. Begin on Agriculture. A beginning is made in organiza- tion of agricultural workers in the vicinity of San Francisco, where a T. U. U. L. organizer has been es- tablished. An attempt will be made | | one of the Gastonia labor jurors, through the agricultural regions. (Continued on Page Three) SHOE STRIKERS FORM COMMITTEE Representative Body to Lead; 45 on Trial An enlarged meeting of the Inde- pendent Shoe Workers Union joint | council, held yesterday afternoon at union headquarters, 16 W. 21st St., New York, elected a general strike committee composed of members from all of the shops. It will carry or. the campaign against the bosses who have locked out their workers and broken their contracts with the © Show Sincerity, Say . . | Communist U nits! (Wireless By Inprecorr) MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Nov. 28. —Prayda, central organ of the Communist Party, publishes reso- lutions passed by numerous Com- munist Party organizations on the announced capitulation of the right wing leaders, Bucharin, Rykoff, Tomsky and others, and their admission of errors in fight- ing against the line of the party, together with a promise to cor- rect these and oppose all devia- tions, especially those to the right. The general attitude of the party organizations is that the right wingers delayed their sur | render too long, and made it only under the pressure of events) which proved to everyone they | were wrong. The resolutions de- clare the party will watch these right wingers attitude in order to assure itself of the honesty of their present declarations. BERLIN, Germany, Nov. 28.— The Berlin district of the Com- munist Party has secured 2,000 new members as a result of 10 days’ campaign. JAIL MORGAN AND A NEGRO SEAHAN Stop MWL in Orleans NEW ORLEANS, La., Nov. 2: Two more arrests of marine workers took place here Tuesday, as part of, the announced campaign of Acting Mayor T. Semmes Walmsley and the National Commander of the Amer- ican Legion, Commander 0. L. Bo- denhammer, to “stamp out radicals.” In practice, the New Orleans author- ities have shown that this campaign is to prevent if possible the Marine Workers Southern Conference sched- (Continued on Page Two) “LD CONFERENCES BukharinGroup Must) | American Legion Tries | ‘WOODLAWN MEN ‘IMPRISONED BY ~ SUPREME COURT | Must Serve 5 Years for Defying Steel Bosses and Organizing Accorsi on Trial Dec. 9 ers to Accuse Him WASHINGTON, D. C., Noy. 28.— The U. S. Supreme Court yesterday ruled that it would not review the | Woodlawn case thus confirming its decision of October 28, that three workers, Pete Muselin, Tom Zima, years each in Blawnox ‘penitentiary. These workers, with others, were arrested in Zima’s house, where they had gathered to celebrate the birth- day of Zima’s daughter, Nov. 11, 1926. 2 | In the house were Daily Workers, and some leaflets and pamphlets of |the Workers Party which were \seized, and with the lies of stool |pigeons about plots by the defend- jants to assassinate President Cool- idge, constituted the “evidence” of | the prosecution. Bosses Prosecute. The real prosecutor was the Jones & Laughlin Steel Co.,.which kept the |case going when it would otherwise |have been dropped, provided the jmoney for the k’ ‘ng of perjurers by the prosecut!.n, and insisted on conviction under t'e Pennsylvania state co.‘tion act. Muselin, Re=cter, and Zima were sentenc: “ to five years, Their case wr appealed, and the U. S. Supreme Court a month ago refused to con- sider the appeal. A further appeal was taken, and meanwhile the date for beginning of the prison term was set for Nov. 25. When the Ambridge, Pa., authori- ties heard that these defendants were going to speak on their own case at a protest meeting there, Nov. Cops Try to Force Min- | and Milan Reseter, must serve 5} } | Leads Red Army | | | Voroshilov, leader of the Work- ers’ Red Army of the Soviet Union. It was the stalwart Red Army backed by the world prole- tariat which forced the capitula- tion of the Chinese militarists on the Manchurian-Siberian border. SOVERNOR BUILDS NEEDLE FASCISM Calls Conference of Bosses and I. L, G. W.| Governor Roosevelt, though a democrat, follows hard on the lead of President Hoover, republican, in the formation of fascist machinery. Over Roosevelt’s signature, a letter has gone out calling a conference of manufacturing bosses in the cloak and dress industry, wholesalers and retailers—and the right wing, com- pany unionized International Ladies Garment Workers. It is to meet in the Hotel Roosevelt (naturally!) for Dec. 12, The object stated is to “have an informal discussion of certain problems affecting business and industrial conditions with the purpose of encouraging friendly and Leaves Nanking—and WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 proached the French, Britis Pact. cerity of Mukden, the total its own purposes in China. * Wireless by by mail. $8.00 ver year BULL FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents MUKDEN MANCHURIAN HEAD ACCEPTS TERMS OF SOVIET; RED ARMY HALTS ADVANCE Soviet Conditions, the Same as Last July, Are Finally Swallowed by Chang Hsueh-liang U.S. Imperialism—Out of Picture; Chang Feared Manchurian Soviet ETIN. .-—The State Department ad- mitted today that the American government had ap- h, Italian, German and Jap- anese governments proposing joint intervention in Man- churia against the Soviet Union under cover of the Kellog While Moscow may have its doubts over the sin- ignoring of Mukden’s accep- tance ‘of Soviet terms by Washington, shows that America is insistent on pressing an attack on the Soviet Union for MOSCOW, Nov. 28.—General Chang Hsueh-liang, for the Mukden government, has telegraphed to Litvinoff of the Com- missariat for Foreign Affairs, accepting all of the Soviet Union’s conditions for settlement of the violation by Chinese authorities of the Sino-Soviet treaty of 1924 concerning the Chinese Eastern Railway. © These conditions are: the] restoration of the status quo ante (the situation of both China and the Soviet in joint management of the Chinese Eastern Railway before the violation of the treaty by China’s seizure of the line at the incitation of the imper- ialists); the reappointment of the Soviet railway officials who were in charge at the time; and the relez CRISIS BROWS DESPITE HOOVER | Utilities Trusts Send Out Fake Figures se of the thousands of Soviet citizens |, WASHINGTON, Nov. 27. —-The Chinese authorities had imprisoned | /OSseS 0° the lg uirities aasts, and tortured as a provocation headed by Owe D. Young and Sam- against the Soviet” Union after|Uel Insull, are filling the capitalist breaking off oftealationa |press with wild statements about fu- o cs ture extensions of plants. Ci eee roi ot ue yacerntanioe Of] ins. Ge aces publihed by the capi: its terms, Commander Bluecher of |,.1:<¢ sheets vary from $2,000,000,000 the Far Eastern Red Army has been (Met i ae instructed to discontinue the ad-| Tues Nore ete i i } |work and has no babis in fact. 2 os : union at the behest of the U. S. eye oe With armed men | helpful cooperation.” Meer Pee he ted! “Te is along the. general lins- of A severe crisis in capitalist economy always brings the rats, who | Department of Labor. It will also ri fo tubrotine the cei end ae Since the employers and the I.L,|!aunched a punitive expedition vclolosiing tiie! shanties sintolene hide under “labor” and “socialist” tags, out of their holes into the |have many sttikes to lead in shops ltempt was male i rush the aetend eet heaneate nora en ese Serta oe by Chinese | heliet that the depression will be scorching light of day. where workers walk out in struggle (Coutenusl on Baye Thise) upon that there will be a fake strike in a Ore netes Mais epviet, terricl ort lived. Always at the beck and call of capitalism in its crushing attacks |against wage cuts, piece work or 3 i before long, at which the unorgan- Hae | Sharp decreases in production all on the workers, when capitalism begins to develop serious and insolv- |discrimination. And it will conduct| 16 District Meets Lead ized bosses will be drawn into the peeunort has replied to ¢ hang along the line, and the statement of able contradictions, we find the Greens, Wolls, Hillquits, Thomases, |a campaign to ofganize the unor- to National ANOTHER OUT F bosses’ associations, and the I.L.G. | Hsue lane, accepting the Chinese |the leading steel industry bosses Mustés, Fitzpatricks and Olanders the chief strategists in such dras- | ganized, which involved greater 0 Nationa W. given the proud post of official |capitulation and proposing the re-| «that the steel industry cannot hope s Di i : i gi , & oe CERES ion ii instatement of Yemsh id Kis-| i i tie wage-cutting and union-smashing drives as that planned by Hoover struggles. Ubiaakoblavls Sile Uonel woud that company union in as many shops fee be shanov an : MiS-!t9 win back its losses,” point to a and his fascist outfit, the National Economic Council. The committee has seven special | typifi ea 7 otliae the | as it can be established in, it only | mont, director and vice-director re-|hig decrease in the use of electric ; in hi tall ange Be ee es ae eee needed that the government and the }Spectively, of the Chin Eastern | power in the future. There is Green in his open role of scab-herder. The capitalists |departments: organizational, fin-| mighty struggles in which American z fe Anan : cat power in the future. ‘ j A ‘ an it . enty ee i f | retailers step ia and arrange fur-|Railway. After fulfilling prelim-|" 4 cevere sli the utilities in- assembled with Hoover did not wish to come out with an open, clear- |ance, publicity; relief, defense, wo-|labor is now engaged—will be the | ier Geeta late ah inary conditions, Mukden’s repre-|4.c: 00 lenge ee een cut strikebreaking and union smashing policy. They brought Green |men’s and law. Delegates from all|centetr of discussicn and action at| 7, Ey AaRee acd ace’ Ch Sucuege GHeviae [ebnbative will meee “witha Soviet eer oe ene Sineee nEaNT and his lieutenants into council as the initiators of this drive for them, |16 shops struck or locked out at|the sixteen district conferences of | M’Donald Would Hold TEL OHGEE Che abe Titi List cin weieeentative’: a Havtafoduk, on | Wave coon. certain to, follow tha as the “labor” smoke screen. present reported the 2,000 strikers|the International Labor Defense, to . dua Gye mem dassenon? po: tie conse Nei a tech, | Widespread drop in production and 5 | Gastonia Defendant | sumer, with the state presiding as|Soviet territory, discus. the tech-) the growing mass unemployment. Immediately after their instructions from Hoover, Lamont, Rosen- | ready and willing to give the bosses|be held throughout the country dur- | ee tia auieclve oo all oe Lacaae “| nieal side of carrying out Soviet con- ey ne at nia F ane ig wald & Co.—every one of them scab shop owners—Green issued a state- |a fight to the finish. ing December, leading up to ue | The International Labor Defense,| ‘Thoxe invited to send emenenie ditions and fixing the date and place ane ee oleh ouae pee PE ee ee Ot Teial. a ooklyn, |e ert, National Conferences of the | National Office, stated yesterday | tives by Roosevelt are the Industrial {f & Si->-Soviet conference. jences is an atempt to set up a thick Green's proclamation, issued with the sanction of Woll, Morrison, | Today, at 2 p. m. in Brooklyn, | 1. L. D. a burgh ToL. D. Gonference | tat. it had sent to its office in| Council of Cloak and Suit Manufac- | * . Auoie sereea nialininacy 15 theiee Lewis—in fact, every top-rank labor faker present in Washington—is | there are 45 workers coming before | The Pittsburgh IL. D. onference | Charlottee $5,000 cash bail to re- oe pine iam : palate eine 5 ead = « searicg! €- | turers, Inc., the organization of “in Th Ce) ce ” oh- | tion-wide wage slashing and union: H i a supreme court judge for contempt | will be the “Gastonia Conference” |j,4<0 another of the three Gastonia |‘ | The acceptance by Chang Hsueh ® gem of fascist reaction. of court. They are charged with |of the International Labor Defense, | <1 4 . qi : ail tela a sre |side” manufacturers; the Merchant | jiang, dictator of the so-called “gov- | breaking campaign agreed upon by | ; 3 | snipes ~*? | case defendants i e ire : oat 4 ui : r, Young, Insull, Gre Joll “These representatives (whom Green calls labor leaders, but refusing to stop picketing after in-|held on the eve of the filing of the | yocklinburg Count: sat dee. | Ladies Garment Association, the | ernment” of Mukden, on Soviet | Hoover, Young, Insull, Green, Woll who are in reality imperialist agents—Kd.) expressed their in- “(Continued om Page Tivo) jappeal against the vicious sentences |” ‘Tho 1. LD: aes it to the de. |J0bbers; the American Cloak and| terms, independently of the Nanking |22d Morrison dividual and collective opinion that it would be unwise to ag- | a | totaling 117 years against the seven | rendants to decide which of them |5U¢ Manufacturers’ saree government, is a blow to that instru-| Capitalist financial and economic grayate the situation by demanding increases in wages for the | |members and organizers of the Na-| win) he released, and is conductitng | FePresentive the Sateen ane 1 ont of “American imperialism, The | writers are not ing the immediate present. . .. .. FASCIST TACTIC tional Textile Workers’ Union. a nation-wide campaign for funds, |terational Ladies’ Garment Work-| Mukden militarist, however, had an-| Hoover baloney al new “busi- . vhey ationa y ‘4 fab: 4 etalle ind ~ r <) |ness boc 2 abor has learned from experience that movements for spe- | At the moment when the national |j5ans or gifts, that can be used to | CTS’, Union; the Garmen etait |oter incucem-nt oth.r than expos- | ness boom. i i : executive of the Textile Workers aria of America and the National Retail|ing the weakness of Nanking, as! ‘“Loadings of railway freight have cial increases in wages cannot be successfully launched at a time | release the other two. iz e, when the nation has sustained a severe shock as a result of the destruction of billions of dollars in value... /” This on top of the fact that the big industrialists, imperialists and building contractors had agreed upon nation-wide wage-cutting cam- paigns and a general attack on the standard of living of the workers. It is such forces in the American Federation of Labor that Love- stone, Cannon & Co., want the militant workers to give encouragement to at the expense of building what is a vital necessity at this time—the revoluionary trade union center, the Trade Union Unity League to smash the united front of big scab corporations and labor misleaders in their attacks on the American workers. Is Green, with his immed@ate cohorts, alone in this logical step of their class collaboration policy? In this betrayal of the workers he has the support of such “left” elements as the Rev. A. J. Muste. Whenever Green cracks the whip, the Mustes fal] in line—become the best sup- porters of the real intent of the betrayal. Rev. Muste, leader of the fake “labor group,” issues a statement in which he slightly disagrees with Green. At a time when the work- ers rightfully become disgusted with the American Federation of Labor, Muste comes to the fore bolstering up confidence in it so that Green’s policy, will become’more effective on a wider strata of workers. With 40 per cent of the building trades unionists in Chicago unem- ployed and threatened with wage cuts, Victor Olander, president of the Ilinois Federation of Labor, together with John Fitzpatrick, erstwhile “left,” come out with a statement that they support the Hoover policy. What does this mean? ‘They support the policy of Green and Hoover against the workers; the policy of no strikes, under any condi- tions; they support the staggering blow which the combined imperial- ists are aiming at the entire working class. Now we come to the political allies of the Greens, Wolls and Mustes: the social-fafcist outfit parading under the name of the “so- cialist” party have come out in favor of the Hoover policy. In fact, they claim they are the originators of the plan. The only | comment the “socialist” party could make on the present crisis with its ‘mass unemployment is that announced by its two leading spokesmen, Clarence Senior, national secretary, and Norman Thomas, the banner- carrier of this third capitalist party. Senior said that Hoover swiped his policy for unemployment from the “socialist” party. Thomas is even more precise. He says: “The president’s plans for pushing a program of building operations is a step along the road the socialists have long since pointed out.” He puts the stamp of approval on the fascist policy of Hoover when he says: “It is now clear that unlike some of his predecessors, Presi- dent Hoover at least has a policy for dealing with business de- pression and unemployment.” Thus we see that the fascist organization, now growing with its . IN FINN CO-OPS SUPERIOR, Wis., Nov. 28.—The opportunist renegade, George Halo- nen, has begun open attack against the Finnish newspaper Tyomies and against the Communist Varty, us- ing pure fascist metheds. He |printed an articie in the co-opera- \tive magazine, “Pyramid Builder,” |which was a slanderous attack | | |against the Party and the Tyomies Board. Responsible comrades of the Board decided to raise the ques- tion of the impermissibility of the | Tyomies printing office being used to print such articles which aim to destroy the unity of working class organizations, and slip away the co-operatives from the working class movement. Before the Tyomies Board could discuss the question, Halonen with the aid of his agents in the Tyomies building, organized on Monday night an assault against the plant to steal the issues of “Pyramid.” Halonen’s band arrived in automo- biles and succeeded to steal part of “Pyramid” issues. Some Commun- ists happening to arrive in Tyomies | office, indignant over Halonen’s at- tack and seeing the impossibility to prevent further robbing, destroyed the rest of the “Pyramid” issues, thus defending the Party and the honor of Tyomies as a revolutionary paper. While defending the Party against (Continued on Page Two) — crushing plans directed against the House to Green, Muste, Fitzpatrick fascist “socialist” party. In this fight only the Communist Party, the Young Communist League and the Trade Union Unit; Union is meeting in New York City to develop its organizational activi- (Continued on Page Two) Liberals, Tories, Unite Vote AgainstM’ Donald LONDON, Eng., Noy. 28.—Only the absence of numerous Conserva- tives and Liberals in the House of Commons saved the MacDonald regime from defeat on an amend- ment to the unemployment ‘nsurance bill. The liberals and conservatives voted together for the liberal party amendment. The vote is significant largely for the union of forces, as the whole bill is «. fake measure, not designed to actually improve condi- tions of the jobless, and the amend- ment was oyer a minor point of in- struction of workers under 17 years of age. The defendants still held are Clarence Miller, George Carter and Joseph Harrison. MacDonald Bars Hendryx. | Word was received by the I. L. D. |that the British government, the so- jcalled “labor government” of J. | Ramsay MacDonald, is trying to ar- rest and bar from the country the Gastonia defendant, K. O. Byers, one of those released when the num- ber of defendants was cut down. Byers was a member of the workers’ {delegation from the U. S. to the Twelfth Anniversary celebration of the Bolshevik revolution in Moscow, and had been invited by the Class War Prisoners Aid of England to make a speaking tour of the Lan- cashire textile regions, and a speech to a mass demonstration in Trafal- gqr Square, London. | | Captain Hands MWL Organizer to Fascists, { Alexander Kanner, a 22-year-old | seaman, stepped ashore {rem his ship yesterday after having been imprisoned in a fascist dungeon and | threatened with death because of | Errors of the “Minority” Idea By JACK JOHNSTONE. National Organizer Trade Unity League. pledge given by William Green, president of the A. F. of L., Union The his allegiance to the Mazine Work-| to the employers of the country is ers’ League, of which he is a dele- gate, Kanner arrived in New York yes- terday after having escaped from the S. S. Exhibitor, of the American Export Lines. The captain of the (Continued on Page Two) workers, extends from the White and into the ranks of the social- y League with the revolutionary unions under its leadership fearlessly and staunchly oppose this united attack. We call typon the workers to rally for the struggle. Jabor fakers! Down with the social-fascist enemies of labor! Smash the Build the Trade Union Unity League! Build the Communist Party! a plea to American capitalism to al- low the A. F. of L. to be the govern- ment’s official strike breaker. This offer has been accepted by Hoover in behalf of the financial and in- dustrial interests. Green, Woll, Mahon, Lewis, Fishwick, Schlesin- ger and company have already served their full apprenticeship in strike breaking. They have proven in textile, mining, needle and in other industries that they are fully qualified to satisfy the most arro- gant employers. The industries of this country are strewn with wrecks that once were flourishing labor or- ganizations, a tribute to this bunch of vultures and their recommenda- Dry Goods Association. Real Union Leads Workers. The 35,000 workers in the cloak and dress industry have no hope from this co-operation of the state, the employers, and the union mis- leaders. Their hope lies in an or- ganization which _ significantl enough was not invited to the con-| ference—the Needle Trades Workers | Industrial Union, which is now to lead a struggle in all shops where its demands for improved wages, union hours and conditions are not recognized, a struggle to organize the workers of the needle trades | solidly in one militant industrial! union, able to do a little deciding | for the benefit of, the workers, in| spite of any decisions that may be | reached by Governor Roosevelt’s conference. | Mukden itself was weakening, for as the Red Army advanced, the workers and peasants of Manchuria itself were forming guerilla fighting bands partisan to the Red Army and threatening to establish a Soviet Manchuria on the ruins of Mukden’s collapse. Bo, ars SHANGHAI, Nov. 28.—Chinese militarist polities, always charged with electric surprises, may go into another convulsion following that of a few days ago when the Feng Yu- hsiang armies checked their advance after being bribed by Chiang Kai- shek to the tune of 9 cool $10,000,000 gold. For with the blunt exposure of Nanking’s loss of control over Muk- den by its separate peace with the Soviet Union at the moment Nan- king thought to save itself by ap- peal to the world for aid against “Red aggression,” Chiang Kai-shek must shift the forces he has been using against Feng Yu-hsiang in Honan and Hupeh, southward to ttion for the position of government strike breaker. | | This rotten, corrupt bureaucracy | | apparatus is an integral part of the employers’ efficiency production ma- | | chinery, and part and parcel of the | imperialist war machinery and can not be captured and used in the in- | terest of the working class. | Workers may be fooled for a but no one who believes in the prin- | ciple of the class struggle would | undertake wasted task. The A. F. of L. “Strikes.” Strikes carried out today under the leadership of the A, F. of L. or any of its affiliated bodies, are either strikes of protest by the rank and file, or strikes called b¥ the bu- | reaucrats in conjunction’ with the employers as the best method of | cutting wages or introducing new | forms of speed-up. In either case | (Continued on Page Three) | meet the uninterrupted advance of the Kwangsi and Chang Fa-kwai armies on Canton. But this lays Chiang Kai-shek and his “brilliant” American advisers open to a blow that would, if carried out, put Nanking and American in- fluence completely down and out. For |in moving troops south to meet) Some | Chang Fa-kwai, who continues fight- | time ing in spite of the bribes lavished | the National Council of the National on him, the area of recent fighting in Honan and Hupeh are stripped such a hopeless and [of Nanking troops, and there is noth-| three days. ing to prevent the Kuominchun forces of Feng Yu-hsiang, from again forgetting what they were out to do for that $10,000,000, and again advancing to settle Nanking for good. in the past years pretty accurately lreflected the course of trade,” says {a financial writer in the “New York | Times,” Nov. Their rapid shrink- |age after the middle of December, |1920, for instance as compared not ‘only with the immediately preceding {weeks but with the same weeks a ‘year before, was a measure of the trade reaction which ensued. The loadings reported yesterday for the week ending Noy. 16 were the small- lest of any full business week since April, and less than those of the jeorresponding week in any of the past half-dozen years .... the de- crease being largest not in grain or coal but in miscellaneous freight.” What this capitalist writer says jis that the outlook for the depression jis worse than for 1920 when mil- j lions of workers tramped the street out of work. NTWU COUNCIL PLANS FIGHT All Districts Report Growing Struggle The enlarged special meeting of Textile Workers Union has just been concluded after being in session for Practically all organ py of the union as well as rank and !file leaders, representing every dis- | trict of the union were present. The leading Southern organizers of the | N.T.W.U. were present. Reports From Every District. The Council heard from The efforts of American imper-' reports ialism to hold up Nanking by pour- jevery district of the union. Dewey ing bribes through his hands, and | Martin, Totherow, Ovhler, Beal and being swindled in this fashion, will! Schechter reported on the South, A be one of the greatest practical jokes thorough review was made of the of history. ue (Continued on Page Two)